THE FACTS BEHIND "KICK THE OIL HABIT"

FACT: America uses 25 percent of the world's oil.
SOURCE: National Resources Defense Council
[http://www.nrdc.org/air/energy/fensec.asp]

FACT: America has 3 percent of the world's oil reserves.
SOURCE: National Resources Defense Council
[http://www.nrdc.org/air/energy/fensec.asp]

FACT: 92 percent of conventional oil reserves are in unstable nations.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Energy
[http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/reserves.html]
Excludes: North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe (minus Russia and Kazakhstan), Brazil, Australia, India

FACT: The nations with the largest conventional oil reserves are Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Iraq.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Energy
[http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/reserves.html]

FACT: Average national gas price when President Bush took office: $1.46
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Energy
[http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/ftparea/wogirs/xls/pswrgvwreg.xls]

FACT: Average national gas price now: $2.95.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Energy
[http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/wrgp/mogas_home_page.html]

FACT: Exxon CEO Lee Raymond's 2005 compensation amounted to $191,000 per day.
SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
[http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB114488872297424662.html]

FACT: Median American income is $122 per day.
SOURCE: Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
[http://www.cbpp.org/incometables.pdf]

FACT: Exxon CEO Lee Raymond's retirement package was $400,000,000.
SOURCE: ABC News
[http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1841989&page=1&gma=true&gma=true]

GRAPH: U.S. oil imports (2001-2005).
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce
[http://tse.export.gov/NTDMap.aspx]

FACT: Oil is the largest component of the U.S. trade deficit.
SOURCE: American Association of Petroleum Geologists
[http://dpa.aapg.org/gac/papers/energysupply.cfm]

GRAPH: U.S. trade deficit (2001-2005).
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce
[http://tse.export.gov/NTDMap.aspx]

FACT: Cumulative U.S. trade deficit under President Bush is $2,835,000,000,000.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce
[http://tse.export.gov/NTDMap.aspx]

GRAPH: U.S. debt (2001-2005, 2006 debt limit).
SOURCE: White House Office of Management and Budget (2001-2005)
[http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2007/pdf/hist.pdf]
Federal government debt limit raised (2006)
[http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aV04.D.whRXc&refer=us]

FACT: 2005 was the hottest year in history.
SOURCE: NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies
[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/12/AR2005101202498.html]

FACT: Projected sea level rise this century: 19 inches. Worst case scenario: 200 feet.
SOURCE: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (19 inches)
[http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/index.htm]
Science (200 feet)
[http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-03/osu-akt032502.php]

FACT: Bush backed bill with up to $80 billion in handouts to oil companies.
SOURCE: Government Accountability Office
[http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F30615FF3E540C7A8EDDAA0894DE404482]

FACT: Bush administration backed $87,000 tax deduction for buying a Hummer.
SOURCE: CBS News
[http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/23/opinion/meyer/main537649.shtml]

FACT: Average fuel economy of U.S. auto and light truck fleet was 26 mpg in 1987, 25 mpg in 2004.
SOURCE: U.S. Center for Transportation Analysis
[http://www-cta.ornl.gov/data/tedb24/Spreadsheets/Table4_18.xls]

FACT: Oil and gas interests spent $420,000,000 in Washington.
SOURCE: Center for Public Integrity
[http://www.publicintegrity.org/oil/report.aspx?aid=345&sid=100]

GRAPH: Gas costs for average U.S. family.
SOURCES: Consumer Federation of America (2001-2005 data)
[http://www.consumerfed.org/pdfs/CFA_REPORT_The_Impact_of_Rising_Prices_on_Household%20Gasoline_Expenditures.pdf]
Republican National Committee (2006 estimate)
[http://www.gop.com/News/Read.aspx?ID=6282]

QUOTE: "There is no such thing as being too closely aligned to the oil business..." -- George W. Bush, 1978
SOURCE: Time magazine
[http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/2000/06/26/pump.html]